Abstract
Bahadori and Leibow in the year 1973 studied a pulmonary lesion and termed it as “Plasma cell granuloma”. Plasma cell granuloma (PCG) is a rare lesion primarily showing polyclonal plasma cells. Various synonyms of plasma cell granuloma add confusion to the disease terminology, such as atypical gingivostomatitis, idiopathic gingivostomatitis, inflammatory pseudotumor, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, histiocytoma, and fibroxanthoma, to mention a few[1,2,3]. It is a rare non-neoplastic lesion and etiopathogenesis of this disease remains unclear. It affects primarily lungs along with some extrapulmonary sites such as the central nervous system, endocrine gland, paranasal sinuses, larynx, lips, tonsils, oral cavity, ears, and orbit. Plasma cell granuloma of gingiva is rarely seen and very few case reports have discussed the same in literature. This case report is a rare case of Plasma cell granuloma of gingiva and highlights the clinical as well as histological findings.[2]
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Corresponding Author
Dr. Jacqueline Jacinta Dias
Postgraduate student, Div of Periodontology, Dept of Dental Surgery and Oral Health Sciences, AFMC, Pune
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i1.160
